Meriwether v. Booker

*254Opinion op the Court,

bv Judge Mills.

Sarah Meriwether was possessed of sundry slaves, as dower from the estate of her deceased husband.— William N. Meriwether, the appellant, one of the heirs to whom the reversion belonged after the dower estate *255was determined, purchased of Edward M. Booker, who had married one of the heiresses, -and his wife, their interest in that reversion, for the sum of two hundred and twenty dollars actually paid, and they executed to him a writing to the following effect, to wit:

That the purpbysi„;.^as&a fore-the iyevitbe1 widow °f is no ground for resisting T^jef that…